People v. Buckley

This is the return of an order to show cause issued by and at the request of the court asking that the above-named defendant be sentenced to an indeterminate term instead of the flat, definite sentence of twenty-five .years which had been imposed.

The above-named defendant, while being tried upon a charge of murder, first degree, and on April 23, 1942, pleaded guilty before me to the crime of murder, second degree. On May 1, 1942, he *546admitted Ms identity as being the person who had previously been convicted of two designated felomes. Thereupon he was sentenced to Attica State Prison to a flat,…